1. Open the Arduino software. The window that pops up is your “sketch”. By default the sketch is titled as the date and revision a,b,c etc. Save your file as whatever you want and save it to your desktop.

2. Click File>Examples>01.Basics>Blink. A window will pop up preloaded with code to make an LED Blink

3. Verify your Code. In the top left corner of the window there is a check mark, this is the verify button. When you click this button the code get compiled and essentially checked for errors. When the program is done compiling your code, it will say “Done Compiling”If there are errors in your code they will pop up in the bottom section of the window. (1 bracket missing can cause multiple errors)

4. Upload code to the board. Now that the code is compiled it is ready to be downloaded to the Arduino. Note: Your code is automatically compiled before being downloaded to the Arduino. Once the sketch is done uploading to the Arduino the bottom left of the screen will say Done Downloading.

5. Observe results

Analyzing the Code:

1. Here we are initializing our variable led, as well as setting led to be associated with pin 13.

2. Void Setup is Run one time at the beginning of each program. Generally this space is used for initializing variables. Here we use pinMode to set pin 13 as an output

3. Void Loop runs forever until you tell the program to stop. We use digitalWrite to set led or pin13 High (5v). We then delay the system for 1 second. We use digitalWrite again to set pin 13 low (0v or GND). Delay the system again for one second and then the loop repeats.